In Portugal, People today paid their respects to Mario Soares, widely seen as the father of Portugal's modern-day democracy, as his funeral cortege was set to wind its way across the capital.<br/><br/>The founder of Portugal's Socialist Party, who served as president from 1986-96, died in hospital on Saturday. Monday was the start of three days of national mourning.<br/><br/>The funeral cortege was to leave his family home in Lisbon, where mourners laid red roses, the Socialist Party symbol, on a journey to the capital's 16th century Hieronymite monastery.<br/><br/>Portugal's Prime Minister and fellow Socialist Antonio Costa said Saturday that the country had lost someone who has so many times been the face and the voice of freedom, for which he fought all his life.